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Guruji To Receive Under $10 Million In Funding From Sandstone Capital?

By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 13 Nov 2007 05:07 AM PST

More financial firepower for Guruji: the local search engine is reported to have received less than $10 million in funding from Sandstone Capital. Gujuji Co-founder and CEO Anurag Dod has been unavailable for comment. Guruji had received $7 million in seed funding from Sequoia in its first round, and was believed to be eying $10 million for their growth plans, including increasing the scope of their search engine to cover travel, flights, movies etc, multiple languages and mobile services. They have since launched search in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi.

Others in this space include Infomedia (funding from ICICI Ventures), JustDial (SAIF Partners, Tiger Fund), AskLaila (funding from Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Bank), Zook from Ziva Software (funding from Nadathur), Burrp, OnYoMo and MIH’s Dwaar. And then there’s Google Local

Posted in: Search, Venture Capital


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8 Responses:
  • From praveen Tue 13 Nov 2007 04:43 PM

    Less than 10M is very vague. If it is 9.5M, then its almost what they went for, but if it is <5M, then there might be a problem with their growth strategy/model.

  • From Deepshikha Wed 14 Nov 2007 06:28 AM

    How is Burrp anywhere comparable to Guruji?

  • From manish jain Wed 14 Nov 2007 06:34 AM

    they both use HTML wink

  • From Sumit Wed 14 Nov 2007 09:52 PM

    Nikhil - as far as I know - Guruji is generic search and all the other players you have mentioned are more local search. Besides local search on Guruji is powered by Infomedia.

    Don’t you do even some cursory research before posting? Also, where is Sulekha.com in your comparison, all the Indians here only seem to use that site.

  • From Sarathy Wed 14 Nov 2007 10:35 PM

    I think they should first build their core business brand and make users to search in their site first before laying their hands on many things

  • From Ashish Fri 16 Nov 2007 05:03 AM

    you have not included tolmol.com in the local search category, i guess because you think it comes under the comparison service category. please comment

  • From dada patel Sat 16 Feb 2008 07:43 AM

    You can search on guruji as well as google using
    http://www.referencedesigner.com/googleguruji/

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